Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-10-06
Circuit court next week.
Are you going up to see Groverp

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Miss Barbara Schloesser went to Chi
eago Monday to buy her fall stock.
Everybody is invited to ball at
Glen Haven Friday evening October IA.
Mr.. Ed. NJ Lowry went 10 Milwau-
kee last week to see Booth and Barrett.
Mrs. Edith Mills took the Monday
afternoon train for Chicago en- route for
Boston.
Mrs. c. w. Hill went to Milwaukee
Wednesday morning to visit her
daughter.
Mrs. Lester, of the Dial, was the
guest of Mrs. David Schreiner while in
Lancaster Tuesday.
john Ruka, Jr., representing Ruka
Bros. Mfg. Co. of Boscobel, was here
on business Tuesday.
Bishop Wells will preach in the Epis-
copal church in this city on the evening
of Thursday the ID inst.
W. l.. MeCord took premiums on
L-.i. MS norses at the Boscobel fair.
Papillon took the blue ribbon.
Mrs. Noble who has been visiting the
Walker families about here returned to
her home in Dixon Ill. last Monday.
Jos. Whitish, in the town of Wing
vile, threshed 10 bushels of wheat
from three acres of ground this season.
Mr.. David Weber went to Milwaukee
Monday with his SON Johnnie who will
take treatment there for disease of the
eyes.
Mr.. Charles S. Hyde returned last
Thursday to the University of Michigan
at Ann Arbor. He is now in his Junior
year.
Sheriff Dolphin is in the south part of
the county summoning witnesses and
jurors for the coming term of the cir
cult court.
The heating arrangements of the Con-
gregational church have been much i'm
prove by repairing and cleaning around
the furnaces
Frank Market and his wife, and Tony
Howell and his wife, have gone to
Chicago this week to see the exposition,
the President and relatives.
Mr.. Chas Z. Mills, his wife, and two
sisters from Fall River, Mass. who have
been visiting at w. l.. McCord's started
on their homeward journey Monday.
Mr.. d. K. Laurence, marshal of Bos-
cobeI, was at the Club" Tuesday.
His errand was to take Mrs Woods, a
pauper OF that town from the County
House. She goes to live with relatives
in Iowa.
The Flandrau, Dakota Herald. an
nounces the marriage on Sunday, Sep
TENDER 25- of, John w Faris and Miss
Sophronia Pilling. The ceremony
took place at the groom's fathers j. A.
Faris formerly of Woodman.
William Harvey, prominent citizen
of Hazel Green was in town Tuesday on
probate business. Mr.. Harvey mas
, reached the good old age of SO; he is a
pioneer of Wisconsin, and next Tuesday
will be the 53rd anniversary of his mar
riage.
Messrs, James Kilbourne and L. j
Arthur started Monday for Milwaukee,
Racine and Chicago. They didn't say
what they were after, but it needn't
surprise anyone to see Jay-Eye-See or
some other flyer como into town in a
few days.
Mrs. Hiram Sherman went to Egin,
Ill, Wednesday to join her husband
who has found employment and decided
to locate there Mr.. and Mrs. Sher-
man belong to that class of citizens
whom we all dislike to lose. May sue
cess be theirs.
Charlie Cox starts this week for
Carney Junction, Nebraska, taking
his horses with him. He win make q
start there in the livery business and if
he likes, will remain. The business of
this place hardly justifies two establish
ments of the kind.
A letter came to the Office this week
from George E. Black, of Frand Forks
Dakota. He says crops are good on
the Red River Valley this year
Wheat is yielding from 20 to IS lbs
per acre and orts about two times as
much, Potatoes and all kinds of vege-
tables are good they yield sway up
Corn has ripened in great many pla-
ces. Oh! This is not such bad place
after ALL
Mrs. w. B. Baxter, who has just re-
turned from Omaha, gives the most
favorable account Of the Lancaster
boys employed there. She thinks that
city is the place for young people out
of employment. All our boys are in
good positions and still there's room.
The two Baxter boys, frank Buchner
and another clerk, rent large, pleas
aut room together. where they have
Jolly times outside of work hours.
Miss Nettie Kilbourn brought some
cotton seed home from Mountain Home,
Arkansas, where she spent the winter.
This spring she planted it, and has had
excellent success with her plants.
Some fine specimens of the buds were
brought to this office, not quite ma
tured, but showing that by earlier
planting it could be raised here. Miss
Kilbourn may be the means of intro
ducing new industry into Wisconsin.
Several columns of the ST. Louis
Globe-Democrat were devoted each day
during the recent Grand Army meeting
there to short interviews with the old
soldiers. Among many other related
experiences we find the following from
Charles NJ Casterline, of Ellenboro.
Wisconsin: Il enlisted in company c,
Sd Ohio Cavalry. in June. 1868. We
were engaged 10 twenty-six battles al